#waveheight

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3 months ago

The wind-to-wave height table Check how long it takes the wind to blow over a fetch to generate a certain wave height and wave period.

A wind blowing at 34-40 knots for 36 hours will produce a 14-second swell period and waves of around 37 feet.

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SurferToday.com

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4 months ago

How surfers can predict wave height just by reading the wind The SMB method is a semi-empirical system that estimates wave height and period from wind speed, fetch, or duration. It assumes deep water and steady wind blowing over an open water surface.

If a weather map shows a 30 kilometers per hour wind (that's 8.3 m/s) blowing across 200 kilometers of open ocean for several hours, you'll probably get around head-high surf.

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SurferToday.com

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5 months ago

Study suggests Vini dos Santos may have ridden a 100-foot wave in Nazaré Surfer and oceanographer Douglas Nemes developed a scientific method for measuring wave height in extreme surfing conditions.

When it comes to #waveheight measurement, the goal is to reduce the margin of error and subjectivity traditionally associated with such complex calculations. #DouglasNemes' analysis of #ViniDosSantos' wave, ridden in #Nazare, is, at least, worth a look.

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5 months ago

AUWave: Deep Learning Reconstructs Wave Heights from Sparse Buoy Data

AUWave uses a multi‑scale U‑Net with self‑attention to create 32 × 32 wave height maps from sparse buoy data, achieving a validation loss of 0.043285 in tests over the Hawaiian archipelago. getnews.me/auwave-deep-learning-rec... #auwav #waveheight

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SurferToday.com

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11 months ago

The wind speed to wave height equation The analysis outlined in William G. Van Dorn's 1974 book 'Oceanography and Seamanship' emphasizes that even with moderate wind speeds, the variability in swell formation can lead to occasional extreme...

Waves are a product of the wind. But are wind speed and wave height under a linear equation? The answer is actually quite surprising.

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